MEDICAL ASPECTS OF SURGICAL DISEASES, OR PREVENTIVE SURGERY

The Preventive Treatment of Infective Surgical Diseases

The Surgical Treatment of Morbid Obesity: Economic, Psychosocial, Ethical, Preventive, Medical Aspects of Health Care

Surgical treatment of morbid, familial, juvenile-onset obesity in a 37-year-old, 260-pound, mother of three children by jejunoileal bypass was subsequently converted to gastric bypass. The resulting weight loss of 110 pounds resulted in personality changes and changes in family dynamics and was followed by divorce. Medical, psychosocial, and economic aspects of the case are discussed.

Medical or Surgical Abdomen

A cow is presented to you for colic. At the rectal examination, you palpate tension bands. It’s midnight, the cow is nervous and she wants to lie down constantly. She is 7 month old pregnant. What do you do? Treat her with laxative, a subQ calcium and ketoprofen? Or you open her up on the right side standing to find that she has a volvulus and the bowel are falling out of the abdomen while she ...

Traumatic Hemipelvectomy: Surgical and Medical-Legal Aspects

Background: Traffic accidents are major causes of disability and mortality due to the increasing number of vehicles, changes in lifestyle and high-risk behavior among the general population. Traumatic hemipelvectomy is a type of exceptional lesion representing 0.6% of all pelvic fractures, although lesions of the lower extremities are more usual than those of the upper extremities. Case present...

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC FASTING